Shahid Sadooghi Airport
Shahid Sadooghi Airport فرودگاه يزد |
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IATA: AZD – ICAO: OIYY
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Summary | |||||||||||
Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Iranian Airports Holding Company | ||||||||||
Operator | Iranian Airports Holding Company | ||||||||||
Serves | Yazd | ||||||||||
Location | Yazd, Iran | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 4,054 ft / 1,236 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||||||
Website | yazd.airport.ir | ||||||||||
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Statistics (۱۳۹۲ - 2013) | |||||||||||
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Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company[1]
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Yazd Airport فرودگاه يزد |
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airport | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Yazd |
County | Yazd |
Bakhsh | Central |
Rural District | Fajr |
Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
• Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
Yazd-Shahid Ayatollah Sadooghi Airport (Persian: فرودگاه شهید آيتاللّه صدوقی یزد) (IATA: AZD, ICAO: OIYY) is an airport in Yazd, Iran. The airport lies 10 kilometers away from the city center of Yazd and serves the city as well as all of the surrounding counties. The Shahid Sadooghi Airport also serves as a part of the important North-South transportation corridor within the Islamic Republic of Iran.[2] For administrative and census purposes, it is a treated as a village in Fajr Rural District, in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 127, in 33 families.[3]
The airport was established in 1970 upon 575 hectares of land.[4] Even though the airport does not have an international status, there are occasional charter flights as well as scheduled passenger services to neighboring countries such as Iraq and Syria.[5] Furthermore, the airport provides routine international service to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj season.[6]
Despite operating at 40-50% capacity, a total of 431,500 passengers traveled through Shahid Sadooghi Airport in 2012, making it the eleventh busiest airport in Iran in terms of passenger traffic and number of flight operations.[7]
Contents
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
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Iran Air | Baghdad,[8] Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad |
Iran Airtour Airline | Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad |
Iran Aseman Airlines | Bandar Abbas, Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad |
Iranian Naft Airlines | Ahwaz,[9] Tehran-Mehrabad Seasonal: Kish[10] |
Kish Air | Mashhad, Seasonal: Kish[11] |
Saudia | Hajj: Jeddah,[12] Medina[13] |
Statistics
Busiest routes out of Yazd
Rank | City | (#) of Flights per Week | Carriers |
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30 | Iran Air, Iran Airtour Airline, Iran Aseman Airlines, Iranian Naft Airlines |
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7 | Iran Air, Iran Airtour Airline, Iran Aseman Airlines |
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2 | Iran Aseman Airlines |
4 | ![]() |
2 | Saudia Airlines |
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1 | Iran Air |
Aircraft Serving Yazd
Aircraft | Approx. (#) of Passengers | Carriers | Notes |
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Airbus A300B4 | 248 | Iran Air | Used on Yazd-Baghdad route |
Airbus A320 | 147 | Iran Air | Used on Yazd-Tehran route |
Airbus A330-300 | 298 | Saudia Airlines | |
Airbus A340-300 | 295 | Saudia Airlines | |
Boeing 727-200 | 175 | Iran Aseman Airlines | Used on Yazd-Mashhad route |
Fokker 100 | 107 | Iran Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Iranian Naft Airlines, Kish Air | Serves the bulk of flight operations at airport |
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 160 | Iran Airtour Airline | Replaced the banned Tupolev Tu-154M |
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | 162 | Kish Air | Used on Yazd-Kish Island route |
See also
References
External links
- Airport information for OIYY at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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